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Gardeners' Notes:

There simply isn't a myrtle out there with the rich deep red color of the Carolina beauty. It does need to be sprayed once a year with an antifungal though. I dug up two small ones that came up from large mature trees about three summers ago. Both are now well over 4 feet tall and bloomed significantly the past two summers (Late June to first of October). I also have 96 plants done from this year's seed. They are in a sunny window and beginning to shoot up.

* Note that the color of the Carolina Beauty does not stay true when grown from seed though.